Jim K Myers

'Jim Myers is an independent philanthropy adviser, specialising in cross-border fundraising and operational issues for not-for-profits. He also serves as a board member of a prominent Irish-based NGO.

Jim founded what is now known as the European Association for Philanthropy and Giving in 1998 to provide a network to bring professional advisers, financial intermediaries and charity fundraisers together around topical tax and legal issues in domestic and cross-border philanthropy.

Prior to establishing EAPG, Jim co-founded and developed an international tax institute. Although American by birth, he has lived almost all of his adult life in Europe, mostly in France and the UK.

Are your next big donors in Sweden? Austria perhaps? The law is changing around European residents being able to give tax-effectively to charities in other European Union countries, potentially opening up the floodgates to cross-border competition for donors.